Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-17
NORTH STATE NOTES.
THREW A BoxBsHRLL INTO THE
FIRE.
It was Loaded Busy Burglars at Will
mington-rhe Wheat Crop.
A Brute Jailed.
Especial telegram 10 tho Disp..cb.l

round sum Tor IT. The road now has a
length of eight miles.
Alexander Lee, who lives in Bruins
wick county, is reported TO have dugup
a bombshell near the railway track. He
threw it in the fire, when Il exploded
with great violence, and nearly killed
Lee and his daughter. The shell had
been in the ground ever since the war.
This afternoon William Harris (cOl-
ored) was brought here and jailed,
charged with brutal assault. As the
offence is capital felony Harris was
not given the privilege of bail.
Burglars have resumed work at VIII
mington, and yesterday one entered a
house occupied by three white women.
One OF the women was choked and
robbed. Afterwards the burglar, who
was a negro, fired at the woman with a
revolver.
Allowing GOODBYE.
Thousands of people all over the
State will hope for safe and prosper
Gus journey to far-away Brazil to Min
lister Jarvis and his wife, who sailed
from Newport News to-day. In two
years they will again revisit the land
they love, perhaps never again to leave
it. No man has warmer or truer friends
than Thomas j. Jarvis.
CURRENT NEWS.
There yet continues to be good deal
of talk about the Chatham county elope-
ment. Elias Harris, a well-to-do
farmer, and woman who is the di-
vorced wife of another well-known citi-
zen, were the parties. Harris is sixty
years old, and deserted wife and seve-
raj children to fly TO Texas with the
woman in question.
Good reports are coming in about
the wheat, and it now appears that i'll
the portions of the State where the
crop is an important one the yield is
reasonably sure to be quite abundant.
1t is very gratifying.
The Democratic ward primaries in
Raleigh have been postponed from next
Monday until the 18th instant-only
week before the election.
About $4,000 has been placed to the
credit Of the State On the books of the
Ordnance Department at Washington,
thanks to the recovery of the quota
which lapsed in 1876.
Greenville is the county-seat of Pitt
county, and its jail is just now quite a
busy placeA One Stancill, merchant
in the county, is serving four months
term, and while he is in limbo he car
ries on his business affairs i'll the Jail.
All the mortgages given bypersons who
obtain their supplies from his store are
there drawn up. Another curious fact,
in the same line, is that ex-Tax- Collec-
tor Harrington, who is serving out
four months sentence, also, keeps his
textbooks in Jail, and the business of
collection proceeds as usual, being only
in the Jail instead of the courthouse.
The porpoise fisheries at MOrehead
have been very successful this week.
As many as sixty porpoises were caught
Friday in two seines. The business of
catching these valuable creatures is i'm
pOrtant.
The Odd-Fellows of Raleigh will cele
brate in very handsome style the sixty
ninth anniversary of that order the 26th
instant. A number Of prominent per
sons outside of the order have been in
vited.
Strawberries are ripening in the New
berne section. Some are already ripe.
In a fortnight shipments will begin.
Unusual facilities are to be given the
eastern section this season for truck
and berry shipments.
The Governors Guard, OF this city,
bad another discussion of the question
Of the trip to the national drill at Wash
ington. 1t is now settled, once for all,
10 go in handsome style. Many other
from the State will so, but
perhaps not over three will compete.
The others will look on and receive
instruction.
The session of Orange Presbytery at
Newberne ends tomorrow. 1t has been
IN interesting and earnest meeting.
Mr. w. S. Primrose, of this city, has
been elected treasurer Of the presby-
te1y.
Mrs. Triestly Il. Mangum, of Wake
Forest, wife Of one of the most inilu
antial citizens of this county, died yes
Ierday and was buried to-day.
At tie meeting of the State Medical
Society at Charlotte DIR. Frank Duffy,
Of Newbene, was awarded the prize OF
honor for the best paper presented.
his subject was Alimentation in Con
timed Fevers."
A considerable number Of official re-
ports by various factories and other en-
.erprises employing labor have been re-
reiyed by the Bureau of Labor Sta
isiics. These show continuous i'm
i'll wages in the past few
years, which is a rather direct contra
lictiCn Of the oft-repeated statement
hat wages are constantly being re-
luced. The wages paid for farm labor
have really become less. This is due 10 |
he fact that bad seasons i'll succession
or several years have cramped the
-armers badly and necessitated reduc-
ions Of wages and ofal other kinds OF
expense.